Elizabeth Wilson Biography

Fast Facts

• During WWII, she provided live entertainment for soldiers in the United Service Organizations
• In 1980, she received a Drama Desk Award for outstanding ensemble performance for "Morning's at Seven․"
• Was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2006
• Studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre
• Made her screen acting debut in an uncredited role in Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious" in 1946
• Best known for playing Mrs․ Braddock in "The Graduate" and Roz Keith in "9 to 5․"
• In the 1940s, she performed with the Equity Library Theatre in libraries all over Manhattan, N․Y
• Appeared in a number of Broadway productions during her career, beginning with "Picnic" in 1953 and including 1980's "Morning's at Seven" and 1996's "A Delicate Balance․"
• Once survived in a jungle in Papua New Guinea for one week after her plane crashed there